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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done."

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."

"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."

"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

"If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest."

"A confession has to be part of your new life."

"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring."

"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him."

"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."

"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."

"You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded."

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."

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